And trust whom? ATI?? They are proprietary as well.
Proprietary drivers are a fact of life in any os. Most other operating systems use kernel api's for device drivers and Linux should include it if they want better control over the blobs. But manufactors owe it to the shareholders and their lawyers not to give away IP as software is now part of their product as well as their hardware.
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Java5 and java6 are alot faster than its previous versions as dynamic class loading and other features are now used. Also swing is not threaded by default unlike every other toolkit out there. This means the gui would appear unresponsive if the rest of the app was busy doing something. Java6 threads the swing classes by default now which should eliminate this issue with poorly coded java apps.
I have used java5 on my old pentiumM 1.7 ghz notebook and it runs perfectly fine.
You can finally have apps that look alot more like win32 or gnome apps without using swt or some other less standard api. Also this release uses some Apple technology with their jdk by offering dynamic class loading. Startups should be alot faster. This and java7 which is already in development should be really exciting. Sun has been putting out alot of java releases recently due to.NET and competition is good.
I have no insurance. No employer wants to pay me it and why should they? With only a highschool diploma they can and I have to work without it until I get a degree.
Basically most applications have a waver that I must sign that informs me I am going to be given a credit check before being offered employement. In California where I live I can have the check mailed to me. In most states even your credit score is a secret and its annoying.
Still t he 30 page pyschological profile tests are the worst with most job applications but are standard for blue collar jobs. I read a story here several years back about brain scans to test for learning dissabilities and intelligence to be used in about 10 years to weed out applicants next.
It shows character and if you have bad credit studies will show you are more likely to steal or be less responsibile with the companies money over those who have a better rating. How can you manage our money if you can not even manage your own?
I do not agree with this but its a common perception. In the states over 70% of those with poor credit get it due to medical problems that our insurance or lack of will pay for. Typically rich executives make the decision for credit checks and do not understand how hard it is making 10/hr to make a living without borrowing in emergencies.
No but it makes a lawyers job alot easier when a representative from the corporation has to explain why they should not be held liable while they ignored doing background checks on known criminals in charge of data. Its a CYA and liability thing more than a fact of a workers performance and honesty.
It sucks if your credit is not perfect as it gives employers an assumption I *could* steal because I chose not to use credit cards when I was in college.
Yes I have been denied jobs because my credit score wasn't high enough.
I always pay my bills on time but I rarely use credit cards and was a college student until recently so I didn;t spend much. Now employers think I am irresponsible with money or I am more likely to steal because thats what people without perfect scores do bla bla bla.
By law they have to tell you they are doing a credit check. But its a common practice and most employers will refuse to hire unless you agree to undergo one. Yes they have the power to see what your spending habits are as well.
Background checks are used for liabilities and lawsuits as much as filtering. They are must for any fortunate 500 company.
A manager needs a reason to hire someone in charge of confidential information or has the ability to do financial harm. Otherwise its the managers fault if the company needs to sue and prosecute or if the company needs to defend itself. After all the company didn't check so therefor employeeX should not be held liable bal bla bla
I have a family relative who is a senior HR executive and you would not believe the stuff she sees. The vast majority of people lie with degrees and experience and many have criminal backgrounds. More than half plainly lie or use family members as references. People who were once criminals have trouble finding jobs and are very likely to keep applying until someone doesn't notice. They make up a very large majority of desperate applicants with false resumes.
Still that does not pay the bills. THis is especially true since our republican controlled government have not raised the minimum wage in 10 years. In the UK the minimum wage is closer to $10/hr.
I live in California and am having trouble finding tech work without a degree. IT sucks but many people here take these kinds of jobs who do know there stuff. THe BB where I have a third interview soon starts at 12/hr which is ok but still sucks.
The problem is the conception that if you can't see someone then they are not there. That means the boss several levels higher than you might axe your employees when he is looking to reduce costs. After all who is this mike guy he never sees and why am I paying him?
Also many employers tend to slack more at home and sleep in more. Not all but I have read stories here on/. like for example "... I let Fred telecommute until I got home later that day and saw he logged into his Xbox360 account. His priveldge was revoked..". I for one like the idea of meeting in an office most of the time and spending a day or two at home occasionally doing work if too many distractions are in the way. Many people such as myself have add/adhd and can focus more with people around us at work.
I was thinking more of Apple buying nintendo more as a means of adding a gaming function to their front row DVR which is basically their sub $499 mac. Microsoft eventually plans to merge their Windows Media Center OS DVR functions to the next Xbox where its going to be the center of every home. Kind of like a home server for games, music since it will sync to a Zune, TV recording, and hd-dvd watching.
Apple needs to compete and it doesn't have mindshare nor game oriented developers so buying Nintendo would make sense. Frontrow 3.0 mixed with gaming functions would be sweet. Also Apple owns the majority of mp3 player market at the moment and they could use their Ipod and Itunes to make their appliance a stereo as well. Zune unfortunately is not real popular at the moment but it can sync to the xbox.
Marketshare is needed if they want to not waste billions like Microsoft and Sony did.
Nintendo already uses powerpc chips and making another wii with macosx and frontrow would be great. They could use nintendo api's to backport alot of wii titles to teh mac if any developers want to target that market as well. Too bad Apple switched to x86.
Ubuntu is the most stable and bugfree distro I have ever seen. I used to hate Linux and switched to FreeBSD for awhile when the quality went downhill starting with mandrake and redhat 7.x where core dumps happened by the hour due to bugs. Gentoo didn't help either and I used that for awhile when it was popular.
There are now 3 very suspicious activities Novell has made since the deal and all deal with patents and copyrights that I fear.
Its a shame as the following story here on/. is about Xandros 4.1 that includes Exchange compatibility with their product. If I were a CIO I would be worried about lawsuits from using such a Linux distro that is MS patented. BS and fud of course but the CFO and CEO would not care and fire me if I chose a product that could bring liability. That ticks me off and this stuff is viral. I feel the patches the same way about the patches from Novell
Openoffice and other FOSS projects and distro's need to not accept any Novell patches whatsoever. ITs essential for survial of Linux and if SuSE wants to include their MS sanctioned apps then let them. At least keep it away from me.
Many places in parts of the world where the jammers are legal are used for places of worship, schools, casinos, and concert halls.
For years students here in states could not bring cells to school because they could be used to contact drug dealers and are distracting in class. After columbine however this has changed and my guess is jammers are banned because of a situation like columbine highschool or perhaps a fire at a major casino or another place where a jammer could block legitimate 9-11 calls. At least thats what the New York Times mentioned when a similiar story was covered a few years ago.
Still in Vegas many casinos illegal block cell phone usage because it affects the bottom line when people know what time it is and think about work rather than gambling.
Anyone here remember when Microsoft said their judge was baised because they asked for an unreasonable request that wasn't granted? This is the problem with the legal system.
Sco may just claim the judge is biased since they wont let their experts testistfy on their behalf and now we will all need to wait for 2 or 3 more years as the case starts over.
to fix an app that is frozen in linux just type in ps -aux | grep x where x is the name of the app. Then do a kill -9 # where # is the process number printed from ps -aux that the app is using. Make sure you do this as root if its an app running as root or type sudo before these commands mentioned above if your using a MacOSX or Ubuntu box.
Also I do agree with you on administration. Yes some slashdotters will call you incompentant but the true compentent admins who have %99.98 uptime cheat by using expensive switches and clustering. So who cares if one goes down? Blade servers make the problem of uptime go away if your employer has the $$$$ for switches. A similiar argument could be said for linux x86 boxes because they lack the ability to hotswaw cpu's and hardware while its running unlike unix boxes from Sun and IBM.
Actually the latest kernel that came out this morning supports hotswappable cpus so the reason for a switch is less when dealing with uptime.
Which just shows the mono and c# loyalists who ignored the patent and legal implicantions with it because it was better than java are idiots.
Mono has been around for 2 years and yet winforms is still not finished the last time I took a look at it last spring. Winforms has been around since.net 1.0. I have yet to see a single app that could cross compile to Linux and Windows nor have I ever seen any successfull non Windows sites use ASP.net using mono.
Now since java is GPLed its time to abandon Mono. Its been known for many years that it had legal implications associated with it and yet Miguel thought such accusations were crazy.
All that is needed to sufficate a fish is to have a very thin film of oil on the surface that could coat its gills. Most evaporates overtime but it does alot of damage while this happens and again like another poster pointed out, alot of the heavy compounds do not evaporate and sink to the bottom. There are heavy metals and poisons also found in oil that leak. Also the Valdez spill was huge and evaporation alone could not qwell the damage to the environment.
" If politicians are so hot on reducing free speech to fight terrorism, they should be voted out of office and be denied unemployment benefits"
They were. THe dems took alot of jobs away when the republicans focused on terrorism and fear to scare the populace yet again to vote for them. I think Americans finally woke up and saw they were being manipulated and are quite pissed about it.
There was a time when republicans stood for liberty and limited government alot like the federalists and democraticrepublicans. Infact the republicans still are endorsed by the federalists society.
But today they do not represent anything in which they claim to stand for. Mainly large bloated government and faschism and using fear like gaymarriage and terrorism to attract votes.
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And trust whom? ATI?? They are proprietary as well.
Proprietary drivers are a fact of life in any os. Most other operating systems use kernel api's for device drivers and Linux should include it if they want better control over the blobs. But manufactors owe it to the shareholders and their lawyers not to give away IP as software is now part of their product as well as their hardware.
Java5 and java6 are alot faster than its previous versions as dynamic class loading and other features are now used. Also swing is not threaded by default unlike every other toolkit out there. This means the gui would appear unresponsive if the rest of the app was busy doing something. Java6 threads the swing classes by default now which should eliminate this issue with poorly coded java apps.
I have used java5 on my old pentiumM 1.7 ghz notebook and it runs perfectly fine.
You can finally have apps that look alot more like win32 or gnome apps without using swt or some other less standard api. Also this release uses some Apple technology with their jdk by offering dynamic class loading. Startups should be alot faster. This and java7 which is already in development should be really exciting. Sun has been putting out alot of java releases recently due to .NET and competition is good.
These same phbs went after Visual Basic next. hmm
I have no insurance. No employer wants to pay me it and why should they? With only a highschool diploma they can and I have to work without it until I get a degree.
Basically most applications have a waver that I must sign that informs me I am going to be given a credit check before being offered employement. In California where I live I can have the check mailed to me. In most states even your credit score is a secret and its annoying.
Still t he 30 page pyschological profile tests are the worst with most job applications but are standard for blue collar jobs. I read a story here several years back about brain scans to test for learning dissabilities and intelligence to be used in about 10 years to weed out applicants next.
It shows character and if you have bad credit studies will show you are more likely to steal or be less responsibile with the companies money over those who have a better rating. How can you manage our money if you can not even manage your own?
I do not agree with this but its a common perception. In the states over 70% of those with poor credit get it due to medical problems that our insurance or lack of will pay for. Typically rich executives make the decision for credit checks and do not understand how hard it is making 10/hr to make a living without borrowing in emergencies.
No but it makes a lawyers job alot easier when a representative from the corporation has to explain why they should not be held liable while they ignored doing background checks on known criminals in charge of data. Its a CYA and liability thing more than a fact of a workers performance and honesty.
It sucks if your credit is not perfect as it gives employers an assumption I *could* steal because I chose not to use credit cards when I was in college.
Yes I have been denied jobs because my credit score wasn't high enough.
I always pay my bills on time but I rarely use credit cards and was a college student until recently so I didn;t spend much. Now employers think I am irresponsible with money or I am more likely to steal because thats what people without perfect scores do bla bla bla.
By law they have to tell you they are doing a credit check. But its a common practice and most employers will refuse to hire unless you agree to undergo one. Yes they have the power to see what your spending habits are as well.
Background checks are used for liabilities and lawsuits as much as filtering. They are must for any fortunate 500 company.
A manager needs a reason to hire someone in charge of confidential information or has the ability to do financial harm. Otherwise its the managers fault if the company needs to sue and prosecute or if the company needs to defend itself. After all the company didn't check so therefor employeeX should not be held liable bal bla bla
I have a family relative who is a senior HR executive and you would not believe the stuff she sees. The vast majority of people lie with degrees and experience and many have criminal backgrounds. More than half plainly lie or use family members as references. People who were once criminals have trouble finding jobs and are very likely to keep applying until someone doesn't notice. They make up a very large majority of desperate applicants with false resumes.
She ends up firing quite often over this
Still that does not pay the bills. THis is especially true since our republican controlled government have not raised the minimum wage in 10 years. In the UK the minimum wage is closer to $10/hr.
I live in California and am having trouble finding tech work without a degree. IT sucks but many people here take these kinds of jobs who do know there stuff. THe BB where I have a third interview soon starts at 12/hr which is ok but still sucks.
The problem is the conception that if you can't see someone then they are not there. That means the boss several levels higher than you might axe your employees when he is looking to reduce costs. After all who is this mike guy he never sees and why am I paying him?
/. like for example "... I let Fred telecommute until I got home later that day and saw he logged into his Xbox360 account. His priveldge was revoked..". I for one like the idea of meeting in an office most of the time and spending a day or two at home occasionally doing work if too many distractions are in the way. Many people such as myself have add/adhd and can focus more with people around us at work.
Also many employers tend to slack more at home and sleep in more. Not all but I have read stories here on
I was thinking more of Apple buying nintendo more as a means of adding a gaming function to their front row DVR which is basically their sub $499 mac. Microsoft eventually plans to merge their Windows Media Center OS DVR functions to the next Xbox where its going to be the center of every home. Kind of like a home server for games, music since it will sync to a Zune, TV recording, and hd-dvd watching.
Apple needs to compete and it doesn't have mindshare nor game oriented developers so buying Nintendo would make sense. Frontrow 3.0 mixed with gaming functions would be sweet. Also Apple owns the majority of mp3 player market at the moment and they could use their Ipod and Itunes to make their appliance a stereo as well. Zune unfortunately is not real popular at the moment but it can sync to the xbox.
Marketshare is needed if they want to not waste billions like Microsoft and Sony did.
Nintendo already uses powerpc chips and making another wii with macosx and frontrow would be great. They could use nintendo api's to backport alot of wii titles to teh mac if any developers want to target that market as well. Too bad Apple switched to x86.
What the hell is IDC smoking?
Ubuntu is the most stable and bugfree distro I have ever seen. I used to hate Linux and switched to FreeBSD for awhile when the quality went downhill starting with mandrake and redhat 7.x where core dumps happened by the hour due to bugs. Gentoo didn't help either and I used that for awhile when it was popular.
But Ubuntu restored my faith in Linux.
Also Novell recently made a module for OpenOffice that adds VBA MS-Excell compability scripting (patented and copyrighted by MS), and canceled an Exchange server replacement project, and now supports another another ms-pantented OpenXML makes me wonder as well. hmmm
/. is about Xandros 4.1 that includes Exchange compatibility with their product. If I were a CIO I would be worried about lawsuits from using such a Linux distro that is MS patented. BS and fud of course but the CFO and CEO would not care and fire me if I chose a product that could bring liability. That ticks me off and this stuff is viral. I feel the patches the same way about the patches from Novell
There are now 3 very suspicious activities Novell has made since the deal and all deal with patents and copyrights that I fear.
Its a shame as the following story here on
Openoffice and other FOSS projects and distro's need to not accept any Novell patches whatsoever. ITs essential for survial of Linux and if SuSE wants to include their MS sanctioned apps then let them. At least keep it away from me.
Many places in parts of the world where the jammers are legal are used for places of worship, schools, casinos, and concert halls.
For years students here in states could not bring cells to school because they could be used to contact drug dealers and are distracting in class. After columbine however this has changed and my guess is jammers are banned because of a situation like columbine highschool or perhaps a fire at a major casino or another place where a jammer could block legitimate 9-11 calls. At least thats what the New York Times mentioned when a similiar story was covered a few years ago.
Still in Vegas many casinos illegal block cell phone usage because it affects the bottom line when people know what time it is and think about work rather than gambling.
Anyone here remember when Microsoft said their judge was baised because they asked for an unreasonable request that wasn't granted? This is the problem with the legal system.
Sco may just claim the judge is biased since they wont let their experts testistfy on their behalf and now we will all need to wait for 2 or 3 more years as the case starts over.
to fix an app that is frozen in linux just type in ps -aux | grep x where x is the name of the app. Then do a kill -9 # where # is the process number printed from ps -aux that the app is using. Make sure you do this as root if its an app running as root or type sudo before these commands mentioned above if your using a MacOSX or Ubuntu box.
Also I do agree with you on administration. Yes some slashdotters will call you incompentant but the true compentent admins who have %99.98 uptime cheat by using expensive switches and clustering. So who cares if one goes down? Blade servers make the problem of uptime go away if your employer has the $$$$ for switches. A similiar argument could be said for linux x86 boxes because they lack the ability to hotswaw cpu's and hardware while its running unlike unix boxes from Sun and IBM.
Actually the latest kernel that came out this morning supports hotswappable cpus so the reason for a switch is less when dealing with uptime.
Which just shows the mono and c# loyalists who ignored the patent and legal implicantions with it because it was better than java are idiots.
.net 1.0. I have yet to see a single app that could cross compile to Linux and Windows nor have I ever seen any successfull non Windows sites use ASP.net using mono.
Mono has been around for 2 years and yet winforms is still not finished the last time I took a look at it last spring. Winforms has been around since
Now since java is GPLed its time to abandon Mono. Its been known for many years that it had legal implications associated with it and yet Miguel thought such accusations were crazy.
All that is needed to sufficate a fish is to have a very thin film of oil on the surface that could coat its gills. Most evaporates overtime but it does alot of damage while this happens and again like another poster pointed out, alot of the heavy compounds do not evaporate and sink to the bottom. There are heavy metals and poisons also found in oil that leak. Also the Valdez spill was huge and evaporation alone could not qwell the damage to the environment.
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If politicians are so hot on reducing free speech to fight terrorism, they should be voted out of office and be denied unemployment benefits"
They were. THe dems took alot of jobs away when the republicans focused on terrorism and fear to scare the populace yet again to vote for them. I think Americans finally woke up and saw they were being manipulated and are quite pissed about it.
There was a time when republicans stood for liberty and limited government alot like the federalists and democraticrepublicans. Infact the republicans still are endorsed by the federalists society.
But today they do not represent anything in which they claim to stand for. Mainly large bloated government and faschism and using fear like gaymarriage and terrorism to attract votes.